Very well said, Alan. Reading some of the harsh criticism in those other two threads, I could (marginally) accept the idea that a really top writer might have worded some of Kevin's points a bit more felicitously, but the negative critics seemed to me to be missing the forest for the trees, and reading into Kevin's words things that were clearly not intended by him.
All of the photographers Kevin mentioned seemed to me to have fresh, new and compelling visual ideas, more so than do most of us (mostly male) who post often in the forum.
-Eric